We also projected estimated future regional vulnerability of timber supply to fire by considering these new burn rates. The inclusion of age-related feedbacks would have a large impact on projected increases in burn rates, mostly in very fire active zone under aggressive climate forcing. Projected ...
3). While both CTL/TL and FT-slash pile decay scenarios account for decay rates of the residues, only FT-slash pile decay accounts for forest regeneration in the area where slash piles once occurred whereas regeneration in CTL/TL would be reported during normal stem harvesting. This distinction...
NRC (2018) Mountain pine beetle: the threat of mountain pine beetle to Canada’s boreal forest. Natural Resources Canada. https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/forests/fire-insects-disturbances/top-insects/13381. Accessed 11 Feb 2019 Owens PN, Walling DE (2002) Changes in sediment sources and floodplain...
boreal forestfire likelihoodAlthough it has long been assumed that wildfire occurrence is independent of stand age in the North American boreal forest, recent studies indicate that young forests may influence burn rates by limiting the ignition and spread of fires for several years. Wildfires not ...
Our study includes cost-benefit analyses of nine fire management presuppression expenditure scenarios using forest and fire data for three commercially managed forest management units in the province of Quebec that experience varying mean annual burn rates (0.06-0.56% year(-1)). The reduction in ...
We therefore carried out an evaluation of the timber supply vulnerability to current and future fire risk through simplified calculations involving historical forest growth and harvest rates and current and projected forest burn rates. Calculations were performed at the level of forest management areas (...
We therefore carried out an evaluation of the timber supply vulnerability to current and future fire risk through simplified calculations involving historical forest growth and harvest rates, and current and projected forest burn rates. Calculations were performed at the level of forest management areas ...
Changes in species composition of the forest is also computed based on mechanisms of succession in natural forest communities and fire-mediated vegetation transitions. Projections suggest an increase in potential burn rates across the study area under future weather conditions and also an overall ...
Lecomte N, Simard M, Fenton N, Bergeron Y. 2006. Fire severity and long-term ecosystem biomass dynamics in coniferous boreal forest of eastern Canada. Ecosystems 9:1215–30.Jacobs JM, Work TM (2012) Linking deadwood-associated beetles and fungi with wood decomposition rates in managed black ...
collected with an airborne laser scanner (ALS) flown across unmanaged parts of Canada’s boreal forest in the summer of 2010 were used—as stand-alone data—to derive a least-squares polynomial (LSPOL) between presumed post-fire recovered canopy heights and duration (in years) since fire (...